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County officials are moving ahead to build a new animal shelter at a cost of $1.25 million to $1.75 million, and they will select the site this month.
The list of possible locations has been trimmed to two. The preferred site is near the public works complex on Pageland Highway.
The other option is on the southern side of S.C. 9 Bypass West between West Meeting Street and Grace Avenue near the air rail park.

Downtown Lancaster is teeming with memories for those in the 40-plus age bracket.
There’s cruising Main Street after dark to look at the reflection of your shiny car in storefront glass.
Dropping a penny in the sidewalk scales at City Drug to check your weight after scarfing down a double handful of fresh-baked raspberry-topped tea cookies that Mr. Courtney had just put in the display case at Lancaster Bakery.

KERSHAW – Amid a dispute over underground utility lines, the L&C Railway has discontinued the town of Kershaw’s longtime practice of mowing the six-block Cleveland Street greenway that runs beside the railroad’s tracks.
Kershaw officials received a certified letter dated April 18 from Railway Auditing & Management Services (RAMS) of Jacksonville, Fla., telling them to “cease immediately” all landscaping services provided by the town on Lancaster & Chester Railroad property.

Newspapers have to be self-aware when writing about other people’s typos.
As embarrassing as ours are, they’re usually in tiny type, but readers still have no trouble picking them out.
For Lancaster’s Red Rose Festival organizers this week, the typo was gigantic, towering above one of the city’s busiest intersections.
“May 18 & 19,” screamed the billboard on S.C. 9 Bypass near McDonald’s. “Downton Lancaster.” Ugh!

Mick Mulvaney, a former 5th District congressman from Indian Land and current Trump administration official, is drawing fire from a national government-watchdog group.
The group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), has asked the heads of a congressional committee and the inspector general of the Federal Reserve System to investigate one of Mulvaney’s Indian Land real-estate investments.

Give Local Lancaster raised $147,075 for 50 area nonprofits in its third-annual 24-hour online fundraiser.
As of Thursday morning, the total was slightly less than last year’s final tally of $155,164, but that figure is expected to be surpassed by the end of Second Chance Giving, which is open through Monday, May 7.
“We are humbled to see the giving spirit of our community,” said Holly Furr, Give Local Lancaster coordinator.

One of the five candidates running for Lancaster mayor in the upcoming special election has been arrested.
James “Butch” Flynn, 47, was arrested Tuesday on an outstanding family court bench warrant for failure to abide by a court order.
He was also cited for second-offense driving under suspension, according to a Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office incident report. His first offense was in 2011, according to court records.
The incident report did not say what court order Flynn was alleged to have violated.

China-based Keer America is set to add 350 jobs when its newest yarn production plant on Old Bailes Road in Indian Land opens later this month and becomes fully operational sometime in mid-June, company officials said Tuesday.

Jeremy and Janet Larson walked hand-in-hand through the pathway of white paper bags, each one listing the name of someone who has lost a battle with cancer.
They stopped to read the name of Janet’s grandmother, Janie Montgomery, who died nearly two years ago.
While Montgomery fought her disease, Jeremy Larson battled his own cancer.
“He has been cancer-free for three years now,” Janet said about her husband of 18 years. “I was so proud of him. He fought and, in my eyes, he really is a survivor.”

A new voting precinct, named College Park, will be in effect for the July 10 special Lancaster mayoral election. It was signed into existence by Gov. Henry McMaster on April 4.
The College Park voting precinct encompasses portions of the Jacksonham, Lancaster West and University voting precincts.
The new precinct takes over the southwestern portion of Jacksonham and the northern portion of Lancaster West, ending at the western side of U.S. 521, and the northern portion of University, down to the northern side of S.C. 9.